Homework Help: science

Posted by shweta on Sunday, September 12, 2010 at 11:52am.

5.imagine you are at the beach on a very hot day. you walk toward the water. the sand is eextremly hot. when you reach the water, you find that the water is much cooler than sand.
a) using the term heat capacity, explain why the sand is hot and water is cool

b)predict what the air temprature would be relative to the sand and water temp..
explain your thinking using the term heat capacity.

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science - PsyDAG, Monday, September 13, 2010 at 2:37pm
Since this is not my area of expertise, I searched Google under the key words "heat capacity water sand air" to get this:

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=heat+capacity+water+sand+air&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

In the future, you can find the information you desire more quickly, if you use appropriate key words to do your own search. Also see http://hanlib.sou.edu/searchtools/.

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